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CHAPTER V. 



" TIVERY medal has its reverse." Mauy per- 

 -^ sons may be fouDcl who denounce coach- 

 ing as an abomination ; while others declare 

 that railway travelling is most fatal only not 

 to the lives, but to the comforts of Her Majesty's 

 subjects. I pass over the dangers of the rail, 

 and will lay before my readers the opinions 

 expressed by the two contending parties. One 

 declares that, among the many improvements of 

 which this age has been productive — and many 

 and vast have they been — that of travelhng 

 unquestionably bears the bell. The very word, 

 however, has now become a misnomer. It is 

 no longer travelling ; it is flying over the coun- 

 try, luxuriously and triumphantly, at a pace 

 that equals the hurricane. 



